History for June 25

History for June 25 - On-This-Day.com
Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900, George Orwell 1903


Dorothy Gilman 1923, Carly Simon 1945, George Michael 1963


1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.


1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."


1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.


1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.


1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.


1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.


1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.